Apparatus for cooling coke, &amp; c.



PATENTED FEB. 10, 1903.

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IRWIN W. PIKE, OF KEYPORT, NEW JERSEY.

APPARATUS FOR COOLING COKE, 8w.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 720,065, dated February10, 1903.

Application filed May 1,1902. Serial No. 105,439. (No model.)

To all, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRWIN W. PIKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Keyis to provide simple and convenient means or apparatusfor sealing hot coke or other heated material against the admission ofair while the same is being cooled.

The invention is more especially designed and adapted for treating cokemade from peat, which takes fire and is consumed if exposed to the airwhile hot.

A leading feature of the invention also comprises a trackway, a truckfor containing the heated material and adapted to run on said trackway,a tank containing water, into and outof which tank said trackway passes,and a hood closed except at the bottom and adapted to be passed oversaid truck and its lower end submerged in the water in said tank,whereby the interior of the hood is sealed against the admission of-air.

The invention also comprises means for flooding or sprinkling water uponsaid hood when in place, as mentioned, whereby the said material withinthe same will be more rapidly cooled.

The invention relates, further, to certain details of constructionhereinafter pointed out.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

' which represent my invention as applied to the treatment of cokeimmediately after the same is removed from the coking-oven, 1, Fig. 1,denotes a coking-oven in which the material to be coked is piled uponwheeled trucks 2, that are adapted to run over a track way 3, leadinginto the oven. In carrying out my invention I extend this trackway intoand thence out of a pan-like depression or tank 4 adjacent to the ovenand adapted to hold water, the length and width of said tank ordepression being greater than the length and width of the truck.

5 is a hood, of sheet metal or the like, that is made practicallyair-tight, except that the bottom is open and is adapted to pass overand inclose the sides and ends of the truck.

In using my device the truck, with the hot coke O thereon-such aspeat-coke in the present instance, which is made in tubular formispassed out of the oven onto the trackway 3, thence into the tank 4,which is charged with water. Thehoodis now placed over the truck, andits lower end is allowed to enter the water. sealed against the ingressof air. In order to be able to quickly and conveniently manipulate thehood to pass it over and elevate the same from the truck, I suspend thesame from an overhead beam 6 by ropes or chains 7, passing oversuitably-located pulleys 8, journaled in brackets that are secured tothe beam 6, as shown. By this means the hood may be lowered and raisedas required.

In order to accelerate the cooling of the coke, I employ an overheadpipe or pipes,

that are supported by said beam 6 and comthe more rapidly cooled, and asupply of water will always be maintained in the said tank.

In order to prevent any excess of water from flowing over the top of thetank, and thus flooding the ground adjacent thereto, I usually employ anoverflow-pipe 11. When the coke has sufficiently cooled, the hood iselevated to a plane above the truck and contents, and it (the truck) ispushed forward on the trackway out of the tank onto the level andunloaded.

I remark that there may be two or more coking-ovens side by side, inwhich case I would have the water-containing depression 4 of suitabledimensions to receive trackways leading from the several ovens, as seenin Fig. 2,

Thus the interior of the hood becomes wherein I have shown two suchtrackways with trucks thereon in a common tank. I further remark thatalthough usually I would employ a truck adapted to run on a trackwayleading into and out of the water-containing tank I do not wish to beunderstood as limiting myself thereto, as the only essentials of theinvention are a water-containing tank or the like, a receptacle for thehot material to be treated, and a hood inclosing said receptacle andcontents and having the open bottom submerged in the water in said tank.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In an apparatus of the character recited,

the combination of the water-containing tank,

the trackway leading into and out of said tank, the truck upon saidtrackway, the hood closed except at the bottom and inclosing the top,sides and ends of said truck, and having its lower end beneath thesurface of-the Water in said tank, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

2. In an apparatus of the character recited, the combination of thewater-containing tank, the trackwayleading into and out of the same, thetruck upon said trackway, the hood closed except at the bottom, andinclosing the top, sides and ends of said truck, and having its lowerend beneath the surface of the water in said tank, together with meansfor flowing water over said hood, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

3. In an apparatus of the character recited, the combination of thewater-containing tank, the trackway leading into and out thereof,

the truck adapted to travel on said trackway, the hood closed except atthe bottom, adapted to inclose said truck, and suspended over said tankand the trackway therein, together with means for lowering and raisingsaid hood, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

4:. In an apparatus of the character recited, the combination of thewater-containing tank, the movable truck or receptacle for containingthe material to be treated, and adapted to be passed into and out ofsaid tank, the hood open at the bottom only and means for retaining thesame normally in the elevated position to permit the passage of thetruck or receptacle thereunder, and for lowering said hood to cause thesame to inclose the latter and its lower end to enter the water in saidtank, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. In an apparatus of the characterrecited, the combination of the oven,the water-containing tank adjacent thereto, the trackway leading fromsaid oven into and out of said tank, the truck adapted to travel on saidtrackway and the hood normally suspended above said trackway and adaptedto be lowered to cause the same to inclose the truck and itslower end toenter the water in said tank when said truck is brought into positionbeneath said hood, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affiXed my signature April 28, A.D. 1902.

IRWIN W. PIKE. Witnesses: I

WM. B. G. ALLEN, EDW. A. SCHUTTE.

